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Love In The Time Of Cholera headed to the screen
ScottSteindorff's Stone Village Pictures has acquired film rights to Nobel Prizewinner Gabriel Garcia Marquez's acclaimed romance Love In The Time OfCholera.Steindorff will produce and package the project, atypically magic realist tale of unrequited love, before submitting it tostudios and financiers.The deal is saidto be worth more than $1m and, with ...
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Tartan Video USA signs distribution deal with TLA
Tartan VideoUSA, the division of Hamish McAlpine's Tartan Films USA, has signed anexclusive deal whereby Philadelphia-based TLA Releasing becomes the sole US distributorof all Tartan Video USA's DVD and video product.Tartan Video USAis set to launch this autumn and executives expect to release 35-40 titles eachyear on DVD and video, ...
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Chaplin's Limelight buys Cannon library of 27 titles
Limelight Films, theLA-based production, financing and distribution company headed up by CharlieChaplin's granddaughter Keira Chaplin, has acquired the remaining CannonLibrary.The 27-title libraryincludes No Place To Hidestarring Drew Barrymore, Rescue Mestarring Stephen Dorf, and The Hitman, which stars Chuck Norris.Limelight owns worldwiderights to the library, while Warner Home Video owns North ...
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Wornham joins Sundance as director of external affairs
Cynthia J Wornham has beennamed the Sundance Institute's new director of external affairs, and willoversee all strategic communications initiatives and media relations effortsrelated to the Institute and its artists when she starts work this autumn.Wornham, who is currently anexecutive vice president of Ruder Finn Arts & Communications Counselorsheading up its ...
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Strand takes US on Thai Cannes hit Malady
Strand Releasinghas acquired US rights to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's drama Tropical Malady, which played in competition at Cannesearlier this year where it won a special jury prize.Set in the jungles of northeastern Thailand, the pictureexplores the blossoming friendship between a soldier and a country boy who areaffected by a dark spirit."Mr ...
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Shark Tale gets matinee slot at Toronto Film Festival
Dreamworks'eagerly anticipated animated feature Shark Tale will receive its North American premiereas a matinee gala at the upcoming 29th Toronto International Film Festival(TIFF).Shark Tale is one of two matinee galas that arebeing introduced to the festival this year, raising the number of galascreenings from 18 to 20.The date of the ...
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Hong Kong pirates get six-and-a-half year jail sentences
The mastermindsbehind a criminal syndicate that pirated tens of millions of optical discs havebeen sentenced to six and a half years each in prison.In the harshestprison sentences ever awarded in a piracy case, Hong Kong's High Court jailedhusband and wife Tsoi Kei Lung and Ng Kam Fung following a global ...
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DreamWorks to spin off animation unit in IPO
DreamWorks SKG is planningto sell off its DreamWorks Animation unit in an initial public offering (IPO)of up to $650m in Class A common stock.The studio said it had filedregistration papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission, however it isunderstood details were not disclosed on the number of shares offered nor ...
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King Arthur reigns in Australia with $2.4m gross
Buena Vista's KingArthur opened in itsfirst international markets through BVI at the weekend including Australia,where it opened top on $2.4m from 245 screens.The self-styled realistic account of the mystical Britishlegend opened top in Singapore on a strong $397,000 on 33 and 35% market share,top in Malaysia on $324,000 from 41, ...
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AFM ties up with Loews Hotel Santa Monica till 2008
The American Film Market(AFM) has signed a multi-year deal with the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel tocontinue holding the annual eight-day trade event through 2008.The Loews first hosted theevent, now in its 25th anniversary year, in 1991. The next market is scheduledto take place in its new November slot from ...
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Menke, Dykstra, Wolsky among honorees at Hollywood Film Awards
Quentin Tarantino's longtimecollaborator Sally Menke will receive the Hollywood Editor of the Year Awardand Oscar winning visual effects artist John Dykstra will receive the HollywoodVisual Effects of the Year Award at the upcoming Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 18.In other special awards tobe handed out at the Beverly Hilton ...
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Amorette Jones heads up marketing at Arenas
Amorette Joneshas joined Latino entertainment and marketing outfit Arenas Entertainment asmarketing chief and will oversee all theatrical campaigns as well as advisingon the company's talent management concerns."Jones' trackrecord and sensibility proves that she can take a film project and deploy aneffective campaign across multiple platforms reaching a broad-based audience,"Arenas chief ...
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Anders unveils lineup for second rock & roll film festival in LA
The secondannual Don't Knock The Rock Film And Music Festival will kick off in Hollywoodon Aug 12 with Gandulf Hennig's Gram Parsons: Fallen Angel and closes on Aug 15 with VickiTischler-Blue's Edgeplay - A Film About The Runaways.The annualthree-day film and music extravaganza launched last year by director AllisonAnders includes ...
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Brogliatti promoted to executive vp at Warner Bros
Barbara S Brogliatti (pictured) hasbeen promoted to executive vice president and chief corporate communicationsofficer at Warner Bros Entertainment.Brogliatti will continue tohead up press activities, serving as the company's official spokesperson andchief press officer. She reports directly to Warner Bros Entertainment chairmanand chief executive officer Barry M Meyer.The position involveshandling corporate ...
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Brother To Brother, Wild Side top Outfest winners
Rodney Evans's HarlemRenaissance drama Brother To Brother won the OUTstanding American Narrative Feature awardyesterday (18), while Sebastien Lifshitz won the OUTstanding InternationalNarrative Feature prize for the drama Wild Side at the 22nd annual Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Outfest.Jessica Chandler's A FineState This Is took the OUTstandingDocumentary Feature ...
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Chomet teams with Universal for Despereaux
Academy Awardnominee Sylvain Chomet is attached to direct an animated adaptation of KateDiCamillo's 2004 Newbery Award winning children's book The Tale OfDespereaux for UniversalPictures.The book, whosefull name is The Tale Of Despereaux: Being The Story Of A Mouse, A Princess,Some Soup, And A Spool Of Threadim, has resided on the ...
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Markline gets vp stripes in international publicity at Universal Pictures
Mark Markline has beenpromoted to vice president of international publicity at Universal Pictures,where he will oversee the bulk of the studio's international theatricalcampaigns from production through release in all territories.Based on the studio lot inLos Angeles, Markline will immediately begin work on such titles as TheBourne Supremacy, Ray, and KingKong, ...
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Spider-Man 2 spins worldwide web of $500m
Spider-Man 2 passed $200m on its 19th day as it added $62.3m on 9,400 printsin 61 countries for an estimated $200.1m - the biggest weekend of all time for Columbia TriStar Film DistributorsInternational (CTFDI).Despite a very warm weekend across most parts of northern Europe,there were 10 number one bows led ...
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Riddick opens for Universal in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia
Universal's The Chronicles Of Riddick expanded into Latin America through UIPat the weekend with openings in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.The picture opened sixthin Brazil on an estimated $200,000 on 112 screens, while it opened fifth inMexico on $525,000 on 313. Colombia results will be announced this week; thepicture's early international ...
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Harry Potter can't stop grossing for Warner Bros
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban grossed an estimated $20.4m fromapproximately 6,300 screens at the weekend to raise its internationalcumulative score to $435.2m.Key drivers were South Korea, where the family picture opened on apowerful $5.5m on 302 screens including previews, and took $2m in Seoul alone.Azkabanremained top in its ...